MLG Americas Minor day one recap

16-1-2016 02:46

The first evening of the MLG Americas Minor Championship has come to a close, with Enemy and Leader-1 scoring important Group B wins whereas SPLYCE sent EZG home in the Group B losers match (16-14 on de_cache).

Seven teams converged on the MLG Americas Minor Championship, the first of four regional Valve-endorsed Minors which all dole out $50,000 in prize money and a coveted invitation to the MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier taking place February 26-28.

Interestingly enough, Group A, which was already a team short due to two Brazilian teams encountering visa issues and compLexity dropping out due to a reforming roster, saw its only match of the day also become a forfeit win for Winterfox as Obey.Alliance's Terry "⁠dsr⁠" Rioux was unable to arrive at the Arena in time due to flight issues.

arya's SPLYCE struggled on the first day of the MLG Americas Minor

Group B however got to see all three of its matches play out in a full-spread and the opening match saw Michael "⁠MAiNLiNE⁠" Jaber lead his Enemy team to a 16-9 win on de_cache over the relatively newfound EZG eSports team, with hotshot Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen putting in a noteworthy performance.

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Enemy

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15th January 2016

EZG

Cache

Enemy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Michael 'MAiNLiNE' Jaber MAiNLiNE	29 - 18	+11	-	-	1.73
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	26 - 12	+14	-	-	1.69
Michael 'Uber' Stapells Uber	23 - 14	+9	-	-	1.43
Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Relyks	12 - 16	-4	-	-	0.79
Richard 'Lucky' Vasconcelos Lucky	11 - 18	-7	-	-	0.67

EZG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Thomas 'GrumpiX' Jung GrumpiX	18 - 19	-1	-	-	0.94
Paul 'MORViD' Beam MORViD	19 - 21	-2	-	-	0.88
Adrian 'recky' Golec recky	15 - 20	-5	-	-	0.78
Igor 'cuse' Nikolic cuse	13 - 20	-7	-	-	0.69
Nick 'N4j' Norman N4j	13 - 21	-8	-	-	0.66

The second opening match of Group B was something of a thriller as Arya "⁠arya⁠" Hekmat's SPLYCE team paired up against Leader-1, an up-and-coming team from ESEA Premier.

After a close 8-7 first half on de_dust2, it was Leader-1 who pulled ahead to snatch the map away with a 16-14 scoreline, with Daniel "⁠virtus⁠" Carrillo putting in a massive performance that included garnering 24 AWP kills in the game.

A note of controversy emerged from this match as it was mistakenly found out that the server had been using the old 1:45/0:35 times, rather than the new 1:55/0:40 format recently enforced by Valve.

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Splyce

Matchpage

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Leader-1

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Leader-1	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Daniel 'virtus' Carrillo virtus	35 - 20	+15	-	-	1.58
Corey 'flashstep' Parks flashstep	22 - 23	-1	-	-	1.02
Josh 'joshbM' Blier joshbM	18 - 24	-6	-	-	0.82
Tyler 'Char' Wallace Char	13 - 22	-9	-	-	0.64
Jason 'focs' Mauery focs	12 - 26	-14	-	-	0.46

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Arya 'arya' Hekmat arya	30 - 20	+10	-	-	1.36
David 'DAVEY' Stafford DAVEY	25 - 20	+5	-	-	1.24
Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz Professor_Chaos	22 - 20	+2	-	-	1.08
Jason 'jasonR' Ruchelski jasonR	21 - 19	+2	-	-	1.04
Abraham 'abE' Fazli abE	17 - 21	-4	-	-	0.80

The final match of the day came far too close for comfort for David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford & co. of SPLYCE as following a dominant 11-4 T-half on de_cache, EZG (who are a team currently competing in ESEA Intermediate) nearly managed to knock SPLYCE out of the tournament.

With 15-year-old Paul "⁠MORViD⁠" Beam of EZG wreaking havoc on the server, the match reached 14-14, however SPLYCE finally pulled away and survived to fight another day by winning 16-14.

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EZG

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16th January 2016

Splyce

Cache

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz Professor_Chaos	18 - 12	+6	-	-	1.11
David 'DAVEY' Stafford DAVEY	26 - 22	+4	-	-	1.10
Jason 'jasonR' Ruchelski jasonR	23 - 21	+2	-	-	1.08
Arya 'arya' Hekmat arya	22 - 21	+1	-	-	0.99
Abraham 'abE' Fazli abE	18 - 24	-6	-	-	0.72

EZG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Paul 'MORViD' Beam MORViD	29 - 19	+10	-	-	1.34
Adrian 'recky' Golec recky	22 - 20	+2	-	-	1.04
Thomas 'GrumpiX' Jung GrumpiX	14 - 19	-5	-	-	0.75
Igor 'cuse' Nikolic cuse	20 - 26	-6	-	-	0.74
Nick 'N4j' Norman N4j	15 - 23	-8	-	-	0.69

Tomorrow's action will see the best-of-one winners matches of both groups kick off first at the event, with Enemy taking on Leader-1 and Winterfox going against OpTic who will finally enter the action at the Americas Minor.

SPLYCE and Obey.Alliance (the latter team will have dsr in attendance by tomorrow) meanwhile await the losers of these games in the best-of-three decider matches.

The action can of course be watched over at twitch.tv/mlg and MLG.tv.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

2016-01-16 02:47

nice

2 replies

IS it just me or does it seem like some guys can't lan. Abe for sure sucks.That lucky guy sucked also with many more. Onliners are a joke.

2016-01-16 11:13

1 reply

a lot of players are onliners, they are playing like gods on online but on lan they are bots

2016-01-16 14:22

1st

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

2016-01-16 02:48

I was expecting a lot from SPLYCE, they can do better than this.

2016-01-16 02:49

Ignore this

2016-01-16 02:50

the usually erudite tolkienfanatic seems to have committed an informational faux pas :^

2016-01-16 02:55

Stich plz

2016-01-16 03:09

Nice

2016-01-16 02:58

not sure why everyone says koosta is good, never seen any of his matches but really only a 7.7% headshot rating? garbage, even i do better than that

2016-01-16 03:05

7 replies

0/8

2016-01-16 03:06

4 replies

wtf are you want? i'm NA global elite and not lying, i have 30% headshot rate at least.

2016-01-16 03:07

3 replies

ur basing him not being a good player based solely off of his hs %, shows what type of player u are lol.

2016-01-16 03:20

Its a b8. A really shitty one at that. Im sure he knows awpers dont go for headshots

2016-01-16 03:23

obvious bad troll is obvious

Think he awps you retard.

2016-01-16 11:16

my point is that most awpers like guardian, kenny, etc. will still have 20-30% hs ratio. shows he can't aim with anything other than awp.

2016-01-16 19:22

virtus op :}

2016-01-16 03:30

"Americas"

2016-01-16 03:57

NA trying play CS MingLee

2016-01-16 04:00

EVery nation in Europe trying to play cs accept Sweden and France.

2016-01-16 11:17

Europe sucks at cs. You have like 100 countries and America is a solo country. Over all that's not good. Like 100 vs one and you only pumped out 2 good teams from all over Europe.

2016-01-16 11:18

Koosta > Skadoodle

2016-01-16 06:58

good ezg

2016-01-16 08:59

It was a fun experience and I'm glad I was able to get these guys together to give them some exposure. I may not have performed to my best abilities, but sometimes that's just how it is and mine came at a bad time. I play awful one half of each map and that could have mad a difference if I played more like I did comfortably at home, but no excuses and I hope the exposure can help my young guns gain the attention they deserve. Hopefully we stick it out as a roster, but I have no hard feelings to anyone on my squad to leave for better opportunities. That's what I preached before this and I'm glad we got this experience. Thanks to MLG and the whole crew, casters and all. As well as many of the players who showed a lot of respect to us. A lot of great CS is coming in 2016!

2016-01-16 09:39

So fakeflag?

2016-01-16 16:34

ez for n4j-dA-paypaL-scamm3r play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic..

2016-01-16 16:53

care ratio over -9k

2016-01-16 10:28

lmao nobody cares

2016-01-16 11:24

ez for vp

2016-01-16 11:34

This line up of splyce are the biggest onliners ever.

2016-01-16 12:13

watched enemy vs ezg - worst players i've ever seen

2016-01-16 12:21

splyce onliners thats enough to know

2016-01-16 12:37

2016-01-16 12:47

morvid new swag?

2016-01-16 14:14

Its fun to See New names like morvid play and beast it out on the Server.these minors are a good idea

2016-01-16 14:38

With a performance like that, I wouldn't be shocked if a Main/Premier team decides to give MORVID a tryout. Edit: Also kinds of suck OBEY had to FF. Brehze is another young guy who has shown some upside.

2016-01-16 16:31

the guy has played 4 league matches ever lol he's not gonna go straight to main

2016-01-16 16:55

Hence me using the word "tryout". Dropping 30 on LAN against an invite team is a big deal (well, it used to be anyway) and should deserve recognition for his ability to place crosshairs on heads. I did not say a Main (or Premier) team should pick him up, nor did I say a team should pay him in cocaine and prostitutes. Just a simple tryout is good enough.

2016-01-16 17:10